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Juudas, Jeesuksen Kristuksen palvelija ja Jaakobin veli, kutsutuille, jotka ovat Isässä Jumalassa rakastetut ja Jeesukselle Kristukselle varjellut.

Lisääntyköön teille laupeus ja rauha ja rakkaus.

Rakkaani! Kun minulla on ollut harras halu kirjoittaa teille yhteisestä pelastuksestamme, tuli minulle pakko kirjoittaa ja kehoittaa teitä kilvoittelemaan sen uskon puolesta, joka kerta kaikkiaan on pyhille annettu.

Sillä teidän keskuuteenne on pujahtanut eräitä ihmisiä, joiden jo aikoja sitten on kirjoitettu tulevan tähän tuomioon, jumalattomia, jotka kääntävät meidän Jumalamme armon irstaudeksi ja kieltävät meidän ainoan valtiaamme ja Herramme, Jeesuksen Kristuksen.

Vaikka jo kerran olette saaneet tietää kaiken, tahdon kuitenkin muistuttaa teitä siitä, että Herra, joka oli pelastanut kansan Egyptistä, toisella kertaa hukutti ne, jotka eivät uskoneet;

ja että hän ne enkelit, jotka eivät säilyttäneet valta-asemaansa, vaan jättivät oman asumuksensa, pani pimeyteen iankaikkisissa kahleissa säilytettäviksi suuren päivän tuomioon;

samoin kuin Sodoma ja Gomorra ja niiden ympärillä olevat kaupungit, jotka samalla tavalla kuin nekin harjoittivat haureutta ja eksyivät luonnottomiin lihanhimoihin, ovat varoittavana esimerkkinä, kärsiessään iankaikkisen tulen rangaistusta.

Yhtäkaikki nämä uneksijat samoin saastuttavat lihan; he halveksivat herrautta, herjaavat kirkkauden henkiolentoja.

Mutta ei ylienkeli Miikaelkaan, kun riiteli ja väitteli perkeleen kanssa Mooseksen ruumiista, rohjennut lausua herjaavaa tuomiota, vaan sanoi: "Rangaiskoon sinua Herra!"

10 Nämä sitävastoin herjaavat sitä, mitä eivät tunne; mutta minkä he järjettömäin eläinten tavoin luonnostaan ymmärtävät, sillä he turmelevat itsensä.

11 Voi heitä, sillä he kulkevat Kainin tietä ja heittäytyvät palkan tähden Bileamin eksytykseen ja hukkuvat niskoitteluunsa niinkuin Koora!

12 He likapilkkuina teidän rakkausaterioillanne julkeasti kemuilevat ja itseään kestitsevät. He ovat vedettömiä, tuulten ajeltavia pilviä, paljaita, syksyisiä puita, hedelmättömiä, kahdesti kuolleita, juurineen maasta reväistyjä,

13 rajuja meren aaltoja, jotka vaahtoavat omia häpeitään, harhailevia tähtiä, joille pimeyden synkeys ikuisiksi ajoiksi on varattu.

14 Heistäkin Eenok, Aadamista seitsemäs, on ennustanut, sanoen: "Katso, Herra tulee tuhannen tuhansine pyhinensä

15 tuomitsemaan kaikkia ja rankaisemaan kaikkia jumalattomia kaikista heidän jumalattomista teoistansa, joita he jumalattomuudessaan ovat tehneet, ja kaikesta julkeasta, mitä nuo jumalattomat syntiset ovat häntä vastaan puhuneet".

16 He ovat napisijoita, kohtalonsa nurkujia ja vaeltavat himojensa mukaan; heidän suunsa puhuu pöyhkeitä, ja he mielistelevät ihmisiä oman etunsa tähden.

17 Mutta te, rakkaani, muistakaa nämä sanat, mitkä meidän Herramme Jeesuksen Kristuksen apostolit ovat edeltäpäin puhuneet,

18 sanoen teille: "Viimeisenä aikana tulee pilkkaajia, jotka vaeltavat jumalattomuutensa himojen mukaan".

19 Nämä juuri saavat aikaan hajaannusta, he ovat sielullisia, henkeä heillä ei ole.

20 Mutta te, rakkaani, rakentakaa itseänne pyhimmän uskonne perustukselle, rukoilkaa Pyhässä Hengessä

21 ja pysyttäkää niin itsenne Jumalan rakkaudessa, odottaessanne meidän Herramme Jeesuksen Kristuksen laupeutta iankaikkiseksi elämäksi.

22 Ja armahtakaa toisia, niitä, jotka epäilevät, pelastakaa heidät, tulesta temmaten;

23 toisia taas armahtakaa pelolla, inhoten lihan tahraamaa ihokastakin.

24 Mutta hänelle, joka voi varjella teidät lankeamasta ja asettaa teidät nuhteettomina, riemuitsevina, kirkkautensa eteen,

25 hänelle, ainoalle Jumalalle ja meidän pelastajallemme Herramme Jeesuksen Kristuksen kautta, hänelle kunnia, majesteetti, voima ja valta ennen kaikkia aikoja ja nyt ja iankaikkisesti! Amen.

Jude,(A) a servant of Jesus Christ(B) and a brother of James,

To those who have been called,(C) who are loved in God the Father and kept for[a] Jesus Christ:(D)

Mercy, peace(E) and love be yours in abundance.(F)

The Sin and Doom of Ungodly People

Dear friends,(G) although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share,(H) I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend(I) for the faith(J) that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people.(K) For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about[b] long ago have secretly slipped in among you.(L) They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.(M)

Though you already know all this,(N) I want to remind you(O) that the Lord[c] at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.(P) And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.(Q) In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah(R) and the surrounding towns(S) gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.(T)

In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings.(U) But even the archangel(V) Michael,(W) when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses,(X) did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”[d](Y) 10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.(Z)

11 Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain;(AA) they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error;(AB) they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.(AC)

12 These people are blemishes at your love feasts,(AD) eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves.(AE) They are clouds without rain,(AF) blown along by the wind;(AG) autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted(AH)—twice dead. 13 They are wild waves of the sea,(AI) foaming up their shame;(AJ) wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.(AK)

14 Enoch,(AL) the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming(AM) with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones(AN) 15 to judge(AO) everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”[e](AP) 16 These people are grumblers(AQ) and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires;(AR) they boast(AS) about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.

A Call to Persevere

17 But, dear friends, remember what the apostles(AT) of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold.(AU) 18 They said to you, “In the last times(AV) there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”(AW) 19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.(AX)

20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up(AY) in your most holy faith(AZ) and praying in the Holy Spirit,(BA) 21 keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait(BB) for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.(BC)

22 Be merciful to those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them from the fire;(BD) to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.[f](BE)

Doxology

24 To him who is able(BF) to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence(BG) without fault(BH) and with great joy— 25 to the only God(BI) our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore!(BJ) Amen.(BK)

Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:1 Or by; or in
  2. Jude 1:4 Or individuals who were marked out for condemnation
  3. Jude 1:5 Some early manuscripts Jesus
  4. Jude 1:9 Jude is alluding to the Jewish Testament of Moses (approximately the first century a.d.).
  5. Jude 1:15 From the Jewish First Book of Enoch (approximately the first century b.c.)
  6. Jude 1:23 The Greek manuscripts of these verses vary at several points.

Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:

23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.